Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Thus I recommend that every business publish a website and start a blog even before they have a product to sell, enabling the following benefits: Get Google to work for you in highlighting your site. These days, customers want two-way relationships, and people who follow your writing will feel this bond.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request. This is Round 5, but it''s only the first round with Windows results.

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Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: Our lead product is a white label, daily deal product. They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. What is Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Use strong communication and writing skills.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube. Can you explain that process?

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

First, you’ll need a platform. I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at some high-profile tech companies funded in the last big VC cycle you had eBay, Amazon, Salesforce & Google each go public having raised < $100 million in VC TOTAL prior to IPO and their last private-market valuation were all sub $400 million. trillion in value. But there are clear pro’s and con’s. Want some context?

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Capital Startup Funding 292

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. According to many experts, including Michael Hyatt, in his new book, “ Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World ,” you need to build the highest platform you can, to stand out and be heard above all the rest. Using the platform to expand your reach.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Really!). Other deals.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals. This is a pretty big round and is a lot of funding--what are you using it for?

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. Though, I probably see them more on Google Meet and Zoom than if I were in the office. How has it been starting your business in a pandemic? It's endless streaming.

Startup 113

Startup Netflix Ideas Content 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. It also has to be said that bad apples on teams bring down productive even if that person is individually a superstar. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now they’re the leading platform for streaming movies. In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). Hulu is the leading player for streaming television. Incumbents can’t react.

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Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. The unique part of this company is their Internet-of-Savings® platform that helps users multiply savings for big ticket items and create a shared experience. LexiconAI (San Francisco, CA). The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.).

Startup 80

Startup Mentor Platform Help 80

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. Salesforce.com and Google Apps are two common examples.

SaaS 90

SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. Coincident.TV

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The biggest roadblock is that startup founders already have too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, courting investors, etc. So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. That said, we still need investors here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Develop an efficient and effective writing style. You may even find alternate revenue streams, including speaking engagements and consulting, to bridge the gap to product rollout.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. With HeyTutor, we track those lessons, let you write notes down about your clients, we create a tutor profile for you and a hub.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. Obviously I’m assuming that you have a great product and/or strategy. You should, too.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Google has announced that they are planning to compete with you. - Instead of BS’ing me he said, “we spent 18 months building out our product and a set of graphic editing tools when we realized we had developed in the wrong platform. We rebuilt everything in Flash and now have a better product.

Venture Capital 264

Venture Capital Startup Training Sales 264

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? What we wanted to do is allow people to be productive when they wanted to be productive.

SaaS 127

SaaS Web Google Sites 127